The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-31
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THERE wss 100 yards toot race al Ffels IA,
Mont. the other day, between Fred Stone Of
Pli'adriphia. and Billy Barker an Australian
| spriDtrT. Stone is reportei 10 nave won in 5l2
Sc odds. Ten thousand dollars clanSed hands.
DURING the high water of last week Santa
Anita and Ixtacalco in Mexico abounded in
floating islands tr;lly. The houses were float
ing, the dogs and pigs were floating around on
fiatboats; there was even a large floating popu-
lation.
SUNDAYS Tacoma Ledger says: "On Oct. IS
there died at c. Campbells hopyard an Indian
child, which the Indians packed in salt, as they
| would meat, and buried. Yesterday the body
was eXhumed and the Indians started for Nicto-
ria with it."
CoLDwArER, MICH has school girl of IA who
is quite a trapper She has dozen traps set,
and has already sold one or two fine mink skins.
She has also toyed with revolver enough TO send
one bullet through her finger and another into
the calf of her leg.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BLAIR, of New Brunswick,
is the latest Canadian of note to come out for
Erastus Wiman's project for commercial union.
The distinguished convert is of the opinion that
| the United States and Canada have too much IN
common to be kept apart.
| WILD Northwest show has been organized
and will soon appear in Chicago. 1t is composed
of native Indians from Alaska and will endeavor
to give the effete region east of the mississippi
| an IDEA OF the customs ana manners OF the pSO-
| pie of what was once known as Russian
| America
| IN bundle of old papers recently discovered
| in Portland is an extra issued by the Eastern
| argus announcing the news of Gen Jacksons
victory at New Orleans The victory was won
| on Jan s, 1915. This bulletin was issued on
| Feb. 10. 1t took month for news to reach
Portland
SET of salad dishes, recently imported from
| Tta1x ba oriS,, of a
cabbage, the centre piece or bowl being whole
| cabbage, with projecting leaves as handles.
This set is as original and appropriate in design
| as one may desire, but is rather an expensive
1 indulgence
| A REMARKABLE ACCIDENT recently occurred at
Chapultepec. A youthful student named Con-
treras was about to cast in bronze a small statue
| representing the Aztec Emperor Cuauhtemoc in
| torture, when the vessel containing the molten
metal burst and let it fall on his feet. producing
! horrible burns similar to those inflicted on the
| tortured emperor.
| PRINCE BIsMARcK's paper mill near varzin,
which was burnt last year, has been rebuilt with
| every modern improvement and may now fairly
| claim TO be the largest of its kind in Germany.
| The two machines alone cost S5O,0)0, and the
| outlay on the whole establishment is stated to
! be upward of S25o,oOo 1t is lighted with cleo
I tricity throughout, and its daily production is
| from fourteen to fifteen tons.
| A PARCELS CARRIER" between Chester and
Hawarden, Eng, an old lady known as Lady
Margaret Hughes" has held the position for
| thirty years Lately Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone
| stopped at her cottage and accepted her invita-
| zion to take tea with her, sitting, with Lady
| Margaret at the head of the table, for nearly
| an hour chatting with the old lady about past
| times and scenes at Hawarden.
| SHUTDOWN is sixteen miles from Big Indian,
and Big Indian is somewhere in or near the
| Catskills In Shutdown at this season. the sun
| ric q nd sets who
| about three hours past the meridian. -Four
| mountains nearly surround the settlement. The
people are generally healthy, and those who
| have lived there for long time have an owl-like
faculty of seeing in the gloom.
New YORK JEwELER has a curious clock
which was imported from Paris. 1t is a bronze
| medal of steam boiler, and has a steam gauge
| safety valve and speed regulator, while Their
| mometer occupies the place of the water gauge
| The dial of the clock is on the furnace door and
| above it is barometer. When the clock is run
ming the pendant balls of the speed regulator do
| the work of the ordinary pendulum,
THERE is no service to which horse can be
put that wears him out so quickly drawing
sleigh. He is used to the resistance of buggy's
weight, and when he finds that he has nothing,
| so to speak behind him, he runs through him
| self. People suppose that because a lveryman
| charges S. an hour for sleigh during the few
days of the sleighing season he is paying him
self for storage of the cutter during the rest of
| the year. That is not the case.
THE Cuban authorities have published regula-
lions permitting American citizens to arrive at
or depart from Cuban ports without being
obliged to present a passport or other docu-
! ments signed by a Spanish consul A simple
certificate from the American consul at the port
| of entry will enable any citizen of the United
States tC travel all over Cuba, to remain on the
| island as long as he pleases, and to leave when
! ever be wishes, without molestation.
AT Lake Hopatacong few days ago Albert
| D. Winfield noticed large fish apparently in
! great trouble swimming on the surface of the
| water. He passed a net under the fish, and it
proved to be black bass of 514 pounds. The
| fish had chased a Sunffsh and caught it, but the
sunfish had erected its dorsal fins and positively
| refused to be swallowed, and the fins fastened
| In the jaws of the bass. The sunfish could not
| eXtricate itself, nor could the bass eject it.
AT the penitentiary in Trenton, n j., Sunday
| last, sixty-two convicts including three women,
were confirmed. The rite was administered by
| Ri. Rev. Bishop Michael J. O'Farrell. in the
| presence of Vicar General Smith, of the Trenton
Diocese, Rev. Father Fidelis, twenty-five or
thirty spectators and 300 prisoners. The con-
victs thus received into the church wore white
shirts, but otherwise were appareled usual.
The three women were in their ordinary prison
attire.
THERE is a great scarcity of seamen just now
in the port of Philadelphia, and no little diff
Guilty is had in manning vessels for sea. Thirty
dollars month is being paid in the New Eng
land trade, and commission of IS each for
procuring the men. 1t is much easier, seys the
Record, to find men willing to go South owing
to the mlder weather and the opportunities to
desert and work on shore in Southern ports as
longshoremen until spring. In New York the
situation is as bad as in Philadelphia, with few
men available and the wages advancing.
THE consumption of coffee in Great Britain
shows steady decrease, while that of tea is in
creasing The consumption per head of coffee
is at present 1851 pounds, against 1861 in 1877
The total consumption in 1886 was 81 sos 304
pounds, against 81 2S6, 016 in 1887 On the other
hand the tea consumption per head is now 4S7
pounds against 452 pounds in 1877 The total
consumption in 1885 was 1885. 1881 pounds,
against 151,21i, s52 pounds in 1877. The changes
which have occurred in the course of Great
Britans tea supply are Instructive In 1876 "a
per cent. of the British supply came from China
and Hong Kong, and only Is per cent. came
from India and Ceylon. In 1886, or ten years
laterthe former supplied only SO per cent of the
total, and India and Ceylon supplied 35 per cent
AN INSCRIBED ROCK has lately been found
about 100 yards distant from the wel-known
Shabbaz Garhi rock, one Of the five famous
rocks which bear inscribed on them the edcts
of King Asoka. The upper corner of the in
scription was lately laid bare by heavy rains
eroding the hill side; and having been noticed
by some villagers and reported TO civil authori-
ties steps were taken to eXcavate the face of
the stone. which was found to bear an inscrip-
ton written in the same character as that found